
Episode 41: Matthew Sturgis on Oscar Wilde and Social Mores
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What Does That Prison Experience Mean?
Anderwild's prison experience was am iso balty fasted in that it began at pentonville, which was horrible. Then he was moved to wandsworth, which, in a way, was even worse thana. And then there was an idea, he had friends within the system, within the home office, who who er were trying to do what they could to mitigate ar e a sentence that couldn't be changed. He later wrote famously about in the ballad of reading jail. I meanas it's interesting, he go, he ends up in in various prisons, finally in redding jail,. But only after hee gets out of prison does he kind of descend
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